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BAGHDAD (AP) — Baghdad’s main commercial district has seen more bombings than its residents can count. Death visited almost daily during times of war — most horrifically, a 2015 suicide bombing that ripped through two shopping malls, killing over 300 people. But over the past year or so, the residents of Karrada have felt more normal than...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Polls have closed across Iraq Saturday evening in the first national election since the country declared victory over the Islamic State group. The vote — the fourth since the 2003U.S.-led toppling of Saddam Hussein — was marked by reports of low turnout and irregularities. Results are expected within the next 48 hours according to...

A massive car bomb explosion has ripped through a busy market area in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least nine people and injuring more than two dozen others. An Iraqi police officer said the...

The UN paid at least $18 million (Dh66m) last year to companies with close ties to Bashar Al Assad, some of them run by cronies of the Syrian president who are on US and EU blacklists. Contracts for telecommunications and security were awarded to regime insiders including Rami Makhlouf, Mr Assad’s cousin. UN staff ran up a $9.5 million bill at...

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(BAGHDAD) — A massive bombing by the Islamic State group outside a popular ice cream parlor in central Baghdad and a rush- hour car bomb in another downtown area killed at least 31 people Tuesday, Iraqi officials said. Later in the day, bombings in and around the Iraqi capital killed seven more people. The attacks come as ISIS militants are...

A car bomb exploded outside a popular ice cream shop in central Baghdad just after midnight Tuesday, killing 13 people and wounding 24, hospital and police officials said. The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, which Iraqi officials said involved apparently remotely... ......

The U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) said Friday it had killed a top leader in the group’s propaganda machine and several of his associates in an airstrike in western Iraq. Ibrahim Al-Ansari served as an “important ISIS leader,” ColonelJoseph Scrocca, U.S. spokesman in Baghdad for the coalition, told reporters,...

A recent spike in civilian casualties in Mosul suggests the US-led coalition is not taking adequate precautions as it helps Iraqi forces battle the Islamic State group, Amnesty International said Tuesday. The rights group’s allegations came after the U.S. military acknowledged carrying out a March 17 airstrike in an area of western Mosul...

The BBC is reporting at least 48 people were killed in Baghdad Thursday in the third blast in the Iraqi capital in three days, security and medical sources said. A car packed with explosives blew up near car dealerships in the Shia area of Bayaa in the south of the city, with more than 50 people injured. An additional 18 people died in a Wednesday...

BAGHDAD, Feb 13 (Bernama) -- Hundreds of Daesh militants launched an attack on the paramilitary units of Hashd Shaabi, using tanks for the first time, west of Iraq's northern city of Mosul, a military statement said on Monday, according to China'sXinhua news agency. The attack took place late on Sunday...

(CNN)ISIS' vandalism of one of Syria's most important historic sites looks set to escalate as Russian intelligence suggests that the militant group plans to wreak more destruction on the ancient Roman ruins at Palmyra. The city has seen many of its irreplaceable antiquities, monuments and historic sites destroyed since the terror group first...

BAGHDAD: A suicide car bomb blast claimed by Islamic State killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 50 others at a vegetable market in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, police and medical sources said. The attacker drove the car through a gate to the market in the mainly Shi'ite district of Jamila, and detonated the bomb after security forces...

Baghdad: A suicide car bomb driven by ISIL fighters killed at least 39 people and wounded 57 in an attack on a busy square in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City district. The bomber driving a pickup truck attacked an outdoor fruit and vegetable market, daily labourers and a police checkpoint, a police officer said. The Islamic State of...

MOSUL, Iraq -- After weeks of unchanging front lines, the Iraqi army rolled Tuesday into a southeastern Mosul neighborhood held by Islamic State militants, taking a hospital before meeting stiff resistance, the military said. The push began just after 6 a.m. with airstrikes that kicked up dark clouds of smoke in the modest al-Salam residential...

Baghdad:A car bomb has reportedly exploded south of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing around 100 people, mostly Shia pilgrims. According to security sources, a truck loaded with explosives went off on Thursday at a gas station in the Shomali village in the suburbs of the city...

Baghdad: Islamic State fighters targeted Iraqi troops with car bombs and ambushes in Mosul, stalling an army advance in their north Iraq stronghold, but faced attack on a new front on Sunday when US-backed rebels launched a campaign for the Syrian city of Raqqa. The jihadists have lost control of seven eastern districts of Mosul to Iraqi special...